Silvio Belusconi has appointed Mara Carfagna, a “32-year-old former Miss Italy contestant and television showgirl”, to the post of equal opportunities minister in his cabinet, with the expected results, she is rejecting a gay pride march in Bologna in June, “gay prides are pointless.”
It appears that she thinks that there is no anti-gay bigotry in Italy.
A real candidate for Olbermann’s “Worst Person’s” segment.
In a 4-3 ruling they ruled that the same sex marriage ban was unconstitutional.
Good for them.
Well, we’ve had some shenanigans in delegate selection in California, where there are more candidates for Obama delegates than there were spaces.
Theoretically, the actual delegates are chosen at caucus, but the campaigns can, and do strike names from the list before the caucuses.
Originally, the Obama struck some 950 potential delegates off the list out about 1700 (about 55%), as opposed to about 40 out of about 1000 (4%) for the Clinton campaign, including Marcy Winograd, who sits on the Executive committee of the CA Dems, and contested the primary against hawk Jane Harman.
Apparently, their justification was that they were concerned about Clinton poaching their delegates (the Bitch made me do it defense), but of note is the fact that the people remaining were the bundlers and their girlfriends, so it was payback for the morally repugnant policy of bundling donations, one which the Obama campaign says that they do not need because of their massive small donor base.
It’s payback to the big donors.
Of note, once this all hit the fan, the Obama campaign backtracked, but it’s both stupid and sleazy.
Just another group of supporters to be thrown under the bus, as Obama is now signaling over “Don’t ask Don’t Tell”, where he’s nominally opposed, but won’t consider the position of candidates for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which means that we will see a military man lobbying against this, just like Colin Powell did, which sounds an awful lot like the dog whistle gay bashing that he did with Donnie McClurkin.
Oh, well, I guess that I’ll be holding my nose when I pull the lever (metaphorically speaking, it will be either Diebold or Optiscan in November) for him.
My expectations are now low enough that I don’t think that I will be disappointed.
Me bad, I’m confusing the Chevron oil tanker, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
There are rumors that McCain may pick her as a Vice Presidential pick.
I find this unlikely for a number of reasons:
I do no know, nor do I care, whether Condoleezza Rice is a lesbian, but it appears that a number of people in Washington do, or at least are very careful not to discuss this issue.
When the Washington Post decided not to kill 6 days of strips from Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks, in which Huey and Riley decided that Rice needed to find a good black man, it published its reasons using remarkably circuitous language:
That was too much for the Post, which announced it would skip “The Boondocks” this week. “We had no way of knowing whether Mr. McGruder’s assertion that Condoleeza Rice had no personal relationship was true or not,” explained a Post spokesperson.
Emphasis mine
These rumors have dogged rice for some time, so absent her getting a beard (Yes, I know that this is the term for a gay man who marries a woman to cover up, but I don’t know the converse), I do not see her being on the ticket.
Of course, if you look at who seems to be McCain’s attack dog right now, which is generally the campaign role of the VP, and so would seem to have the inside track on the position, it’s Lindsay Graham, who has had rumors swirling around him for years.
The toe tapping Senator is Out!
Ummm…let me rephrase that in a slightly clearer way: Larry Craig (R-ID) is not standing for reelection.
Now that there has been some press coverage, the home office is reviewing their deportation 19-year-old Mehdi Kazemi.
I got this in the mail.
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The Home Secretary in the UK intends to deport a Lesbian back to native Iran, where her partner has already been sentenced to death.
It appears that the home office thinks that everything is “just hunky dory”, because so long as, “Iranians are discreet about their homosexuality, they will not be persecuted”.
That the hell happened to the Labor party?
I have no clue as to how they might rule on this issue, but only one of the judges is a Democratic appointee.
If someone could set the letter of admonishment to music, preferably something with a nice foot-tapping beat, I’d love to hear it.
Good news. It’s another step on the road to full marriage equity.
Actually the soldier in question is suggesting that the Military’s policies on gays serving may be changing, because he told his CO’s that he was gay, and because he’s been out for years.
Nope:
“This particular soldier’s unit only recently returned from the war to Fort Hood, Texas, so it’s premature to speculate on any future actions until the young man’s situation can be considered by his chain of command,” Boyce said in a statement.
Translation: Now that you’ve done your tour, and we no longer need you, you will be separated, you will have no benefits, and we want that enlistment bonus back.
Basically, it was attached to an emergency spending bill funding Iraq, could not get the votes in the house, because about 30 Dems would not vote for a war funding bill under any circumstances.
This means that the bill is dead for this year, though I think that it will come up again next year.
I can’t help but think that this is a shot across the bow of Pelosi, who has been rather timid compared to Reid on challenging Bush on Iraq.
Expanding the law to cover hate crimes against gays has to be a huge issue in her district, and it being pulled is going to result in her office catching hell from her constituents.
Honestly, I think the that Bush will veto anything that this is attached to anyway, so we need to wait for a Dem president, so the anti-war congressmen have made the right decision.
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig.
Four men have been willing to go on the record.
I’m sure that Larry Craig does not believe that he is gay….In fact, if you hooked him up to a polygraph, it would probably show truth, but he is gay, and he has sex with other men.
I cannot understand how someone can do this. It is a denial of ones core self.
The closet is an awful place.
Edwards is saying that, “‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ did not become wrong. It was always wrong.“, and Dodd is saying, “”The time to put an end to the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy has come“.
Clinton and Obama?????
***Crickets****
He said it should rather be focusing on global problems such as Aids.
“Our world is facing problems – poverty, HIV and Aids – a devastating pandemic, and conflict,” said Archbishop Tutu, 76.
“God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another.
“In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality.”
Mike Says:
The Democrats should run on the platform of Our gays are better than their gays.
Ours are the out, fun, happy, Will and Grace gays.
Theirs are the angry, closeted, creepy, preying, priest/gym teacher gays.
Which do you prefer, America?
Word up!!!
But like any good environmentalists, they have have turned to recycling. They gone back to accusations that Hillary is a lesbian.
It appears that the right wingers do not know the difference between a lesbian and a scary woman. While there is an intersection of these groups, it does not approach unity.
Of course, the wankeriffic Mickey Kaus dutifully reports this as a breaking rumor, because, I guess, that he feels honor bound to his readers to report every lame assed rumor out there.
Have I mentioned the rumor that Mickey Kaus blows goats? I feel compelled to report that too.
What I dread is the fact that Hillary’s will now leak a sex tape of her and Bill to refute the rumor.
The horror…the horror…
Good, I can think of few people more deserving of being ground into the dust by their victims than the “God hates fags” crowd.
This goes to the father of a dead soldier.
The Picture in question:
Miller apologizes for street festival poster
Promo drew complaints from Catholic group
By TOM DAYKIN
tdaykin@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Oct. 29, 2007Miller Brewing Co. Monday apologized for allowing the company’s brand logos to appear on a poster promoting a San Francisco street festival that some viewed as offensive to Catholics.
The poster was a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” featuring men and women wearing leather. It promoted the Folsom Street Fair, an annual event that features exhibits on sexual practices. This year’s fair occurred in September.
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We know the real reason that Bill Donohue got his nipples in a twist*, it wasn’t the leather. It was the black Jesus. This guy has a long history of deeply bigoted statements.
Besides, this is a hoot. It’s almost as funny as the Last Supper Scene in the movie M*A*S*H*.
*Yeah, I know, cheap pun, but I gotta be me.